Early-Middle Pleistocene environmental changes and human evolution in the Italian peninsula

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1420-1438

  Manzi, Giorgio ^a   Magri, Donatella ^a   Palombo, Maria Rita ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; CLIMATIC SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL SCENARIOS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EURASIA; EXTREME CONDITIONS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; ITALIAN PENINSULA; LOCAL PATTERNS; PALAEOBIOLOGY; PALAEONTOLOGICAL DATA; PLANT POPULATION; PLEISTOCENE; SPACE AND TIME;

BIOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ITALY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79954586867     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.034     Document Type: Article

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